Replying to Strive 14/16 quality/durability

Hey everyone,

I am sure like some of you, I have been looking at the Salomon/Armada/Atomic Strive 14/16 as alternatives to pivots. It looks like they took some of the R&D from the shifts, and put it into a strictly alpine binding. Apparently they were benchmarking performance off of look pivots and the marketing reflects that, my questions are:



Do they have the retention/release qualities as advertised?
How are they in terms of durability?
Is there any "feel" improvement over Pivots? (Stack height is almost the same)

Curious from users who have ski the binding, and experience releases in proper (or improper) settings.



Thanks!